Written By komlim puldel on Minggu, 08 Februari 2015 | 23.08

Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan have been on death row for almost a decade. Here's an overview of the significant events from 2005 to 2015.

Death sentence ... Australian Myuran Sukumaran is being escorted to a court for his trial in Denpasar, Bali. Picture: AFP /Jewel SamadSource: AFP

THE families of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan will travel from Bali today to Jakarta's presidential palace to plead for a second chance for the condemned drug traffickers.

Sukumaran's mother Raji and his brother Chinthu along with Chan's mother Helen and his brother Michael will be joined by Indonesia's national human rights organisation, Komnas HAM to announce the next legal stage in their battle to save the two Sydney men from the firing squad.

The families' journey to the Indonesian capital comes as the men's former lawyer has revealed that he has potential new evidence which could help save them and one of the judges who sentenced Sukumaran to death has told News Corporation that she never wanted to give him the death penalty and has regretted it every day since.

On the eve of their trip to Jakarta, Chinthu told News Corporation Australia of the suffering of his family.

"Our days are very difficult, we can't stop thinking of what will happen and the violent way he will be killed. My mum keeps thinking about his and Andrew's dead body being handed to her, she is having nightmares," Mr Sukumaran said.

"It is very difficult to not think about the violent way he will die, trying to work out how much time we have left and thinking about him not smiling again," he said.

"It is a truly awful punishment on my mother who did not do anything to deserve this," Mr Sukumaran said.

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He said that his mother gets down on her knees every night to pray that the Indonesian President, Attorney-General and all who hold Sukumaran and Chan's fate in their hands can see how unique their case is and show mercy.

Mr Sukumaran said the family had watched in recent years as Indonesia worked successfully to seek mercy and save its own citizens on death row abroad. The family is now asking for the same mercy for the Australians.

"The crime deserved punishment, a long time in prison but not being taken out and shot dead."

And speaking exclusively to News Corporation, Judge Roro Suryowati, who is no longer in Bali, told how she has been in tears at the news that Sukumaran and Chan will soon be executed. She was on the Denpasar District Court bench which sentenced Sukumaran to death in 2006.

For the past decade Judge Suryowati has carried the regret with her and seeing news of the impending executions on television still causes her to cry. She is now a Judge of the High Court in a different region.

Straight talk ... Judge Roro Suryowati in her former office at Denpasar District Court in Bali.Source: News Corp Australia

Judge Suryowati cried on the day, in 2006, that Sukumaran was sentenced to death. She had not wanted it then and still does not believe it was justified.

It was the first and last time anyone in her court had been sentenced to death and she has never given a death sentence since and never will.

Her two fellow Judges on the bench had voted for Sukumaran to get death but she had argued against it, trying to talk them out of it. It was in vain. She was over ruled by the majority.

She says now she tried her best to seek a different outcome and she regrets she could not influence the outcome.

"My feeling has not changed. I feel pity for them. I feel sorry for them … Now if there is news about them, I often change the channel. It makes me cry."

Judge Suryowati's comments come in the wake of Mr Rifan's unannounced visit to the two men in jail on Saturday.

Mr Rifan revealed that at the time his clients were to have been sentenced to life in jail not the death penalty but there was political interference which got them death.

"At that time, they actually will be sentenced to life. There are several factors that caused them to be sentenced to death at that time. We saw there was intervention at that time," Mr Rifan said.

"The panel of Judges, I am very sure, also feel regret. Because after they sentenced them to death, they said to me that actually it was not what they want."

He said he had provided information to Sukumaran that could help in the future legal strategies. Sukumaran undertook to talk to his now lawyers, he said. Mr Rifan spent an hour inside the jail on Saturday talking with his former clients, who he said were "surprised" to see him.

Getting help ... Helen Chan (left) is escorted by Australian Consul-General to Bali, Majell Hind, after visiting her son Andrew Chan. Picture: AFPSource: AFP

Meanwhile, in a last-minute bid to spare the pair, Catholic Archbishop of Sydney Antony Fisher put out a joint statement with Australia's Grand Mufti Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohammed to appeal to the world's most populous Muslim nation.

Mr Fisher said more than 100 Indonesians have gained clemency as a direct result of the Indonesian Government's efforts in Saudi Arabia and Malaysia in recent years.

"The Indonesian Government has itself got a commission that permanently work on pleading the cause of people on death row from their own country," he said.

"They understand that even if the strict law directs this (the death penalty) there is still a good case to be made for clemency for particular people."

Mr Fisher said the church opposes the death penalty and claims by a lawyer who represented the duo, Mohamad Rifan, that the judges who sentenced them to death were pressured politically to do so meant the Indonesian Government should halt the imminent executions.

"The Catholic Church is against the death penalty, we recognise that at other times in history we have supported the death penalty. Our view today would be there are other ways of containing the danger of dangerous criminals," he said.

"We've heard in the last day or so there might have been some inappropriate pressure put on the judges in that country.

"To the extent there were failings in the legal processes in either countries is another reason to delay and another reason for clemency."

The pair was men of "great charity" and was no longer a danger to society Mr Fisher said.

"They are reformed characters. They should still pay a price in terms of punishment for what they've done we all agree," he said.

Dr Mohammed said the Australian National Imams Council would contact its counterparts in Indonesia and was considering going to Indonesia to appeal to the government.

Hoping for a miracle ... Myuran Sukumaran who is also on death row. Picture: Adam TaylorSource: News Limited

"I believe the Indonesian Government will consider it seriously that we really hope they will take the right course of action," he said through an interpreter.

"We really believe they have repented and totally understand what they have done."

The statement by the two religious leaders will be sent to the Indonesian and Australian governments.

"Our request is for clemency or a commuted sentence for Andrew and Myuran so as to allow them to be further rehabilitated and to execute would prematurely end these lives, robbing both of them and our communities of the opportunity for ongoing repentance and rehabilitation," the pair said in the statement.

BRUCE Jenner is being questioned by police over his involvement in a fatal three-vehicle crash on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu.

Jenner rear-ended a car, causing an accident that killed a woman motorist,The New York Post reported.

Seven other people were injured in the accident, which happened on Saturday afternoon local time.

Jenner's dark blue Cadillac Escalade was towing a dune buggy in a trailer when he rear-ended a white Lexus sedan being driven by an ­elderly woman.

The Lexus spun into oncoming traffic and smashed head-on into a black Hummer. The impact of the horrifying collision killed the woman, sources said.

The woman is reportedly a 69-year-old neighbour.

Scene ... the collision happened on the Pacific Coast Highway near its intersection with Corral Canyon Road in Malibu. Picture: Splash NewsSource: Supplied

Fatality ... witnesses said Bruce Jenner rear-ended a white car being driven by an old woman. Picture: Splash NewsSource: Supplied

Officers are investigating why the Lexus stopped or slowed in front of Jenner. They said its driver may have slowed because of the traffic signal at the nearby intersection.

Five paparazzi were following Jenner's car. Sheriff's officers denied reports that the photographers were chasing Jenner, and said the former Olympic gold medallist had been taking no evasive action to avoid them.

Moments after the crash, Jenner, wearing a black baseball cap, a blue shirt and loose, baggy pants, was photographed as he peered into the Lexus. Its driver was slumped across the front seat amid crumpled airbags.

Witnesses said the woman was travelling with a young boy, who was seen crying at the scene, near Corral Canyon Road.

The Sheriff's Department has opened a vehicular manslaughter investigation that will focus on all the surviving drivers, sources told CNN.

TMZ reported that "it looks like Bruce caused the accident".

Motorist Keoni Picerno, 44, told The New York Post he was 10 car lengths ahead of the crash and made a U-turn once he realised what had happened. Jenner, 65, did not appear injured.

"He was up walking around, and he returned to his car once he realised the severity of the accident," Picerno said.

SHE was one of the hot favourites to win but Leisel Jones has been sent home in the shock first elimination on I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!

The former Olympic swimmer, 29, was considered by many on the production to have a good shot at taking out the Network Ten reality series, set in South Africa, but it's thought her lack of screen time impacted her ability to connect with fans over more prominent celebs.

Despite her brief stint, Jones said prior to joining the show that any length of time in the jungle would be a positive experience.

Sent packing ... Olympic swimmer Leisel Jones has been eliminated from I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!Source: Channel 10

"The older you get, the more comfortable you get and I was looking for this type of challenge, something to test myself with," she said. "I picked a big and very public one."

It's understood model and former Miss Universe Australia Laura Dundovic and children's entertainer Laura Brant were also in the firing line after receiving a low number of saves.

At the end of the first week of camp life, tempers are beginning to flare and Brant might've been hoping it was Merv Hughes who was sent packing.

The cricket legend's comments about women "knowing their place" riled up the former Hi-5 performer, who gave him a few swift punches to the arm for his seemingly sexist jokes.

Dodgy jokes ... Merv Hughes' remarks about women riled up a few in the camp. Leisel Jones and Merv Hughes.Source: Supplied

"Merv the perve says whatever he wants and in every bit of joke he says I feel like there might be a bit of truth," Brant said.

There were a few glances exchanged around the campfire when Hughes congratulated the females for cleaning up after dinner, saying "it's a bloody good woman who knows her place" and that washing up was what "women do best".

But the retired fast-bowler insisted he was just joking and toned things down when he realised Brant wasn't laughing anymore.

Mr Entsch who has publicly expressed his concerns over the future of the Liberal party previously, said the Prime Minister's decision today to bring forward the party room meeting to 9am had "upset a lot of people".

"This meeting is something I had arranged when I had concerns before, but it is still going ahead this afternoon," he said.

It is not yet known if Mr Abbott will meet with more MPs concerned about the party's future direction.

Mr Hockey said the best way forward for the nation was to continue with the current leadership team.

"Tony Abbott and Julie Bishop and the entire team are providing strong leadership," he said.

"I haven't seen any alternate policies by anyone that will fix up the mess that Labor's left."

Mr Abbott this morning surprised the party by moving forward a scheduled party room meeting to 9am tomorrow but a backlash has already begun against the move, with MPs saying it is "desperate" and does not afford the party the right level of respect.

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LIBERAL MPS WANTS SPILL MOTION DEFEATED

Fellow Tasmanian Andrew Nikolic called on West Australian MPs Luke Simpkins and Don Randall to withdraw their spill motion.

"I think what we're getting at the moment is the sort of introspection that the Australian people explicitly rejected in September 2013," he said.

Quizzed about another opinion poll showing the coalition would be better off with Malcolm Turnbull as leader, Mr Nikolic said: "So, let's blow the joint up every six months because the polls are bad? What a ridiculous assertion."

"It was untenable to go into Question Time without this issue being resolved," he said.

Attorney-General George Brandis said that Mr Abbott had the "unanimous" support of cabinet.

"I believe all of my cabinet and frontbench colleagues will observe the appropriate conventions as they should," he told ABC News.

"I do believe the spill motion will be defeated tomorrow as it should be. We don't want to be like the Labor party."

LABOR HINTS AT TURNBULL'S 'TRUE COLOURS'

In an email this afternoon, Shadow Minister for the Environment Mark Butler criticised Malcom Turnbull for his so-called commitment to climate change. He even cheekily referred to Mr Turnbull as "possibly your next Prime Minister".

"That's Communications Minister (and possibly your next Prime Minister) Malcolm Turnbull...As you read this email, there are reports that Turnbull will ditch his so-called climate change convictions just to get the top job."

PALMER, XENOPHON WANT PARTY MESS OVER

Key independent senator Nick Xenophon has labelled the Liberal leadership crisis an embarrassing mess. "And I think that the entire nation is fed up with it," he told reporters in Canberra.

"It's as though they can't hear the rest of the nation screaming at what's going on," Senator Xenophon said, adding Australians had seen Labor tear itself apart and were now watching the Liberals do the same thing.

"This is no way to run a country."

Palmer United Party leader Clive Palmer described the saga as a storm in a tea cup.

"What's more important is not individuals, but getting this country going with the right policies," he told reporters.

OTHER LIBERAL MPS STILL RESTLESS

Tonight, Wyatt Roy has confirmed he will be voting in favour of the spill taking place.

Victorian MP Sharman Stone also she believed there needed to be a spill and would vote for it in a ballot tomorrow.

"I believe there should be a spill," Ms Stone said.

She said that she didn't have a problem with it being moved forward a day.

"It doesn't change the way that I'm going to vote," Ms Stone said.

West Australian MP Dennis Jensen also confirmed that he would be voting in favour of a spill motion.

"Yes I will," Dr Jensen told News Corp Australia.

Dr Jensen said that he believed Mr Turnbull would stand as a leadership candidate.

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One Liberal backbencher, who has been critical of Mr Abbott's leadership style, said the numbers on a spill motion remained "very close".

The backbencher said Mr Abbott's decision to make yet another "captain's call" and fast-track a meeting of the Liberal party room was being interpreted by many as evidence the Prime Minister was incapable of a more consultative approach.

Another Queensland backbencher said the decision to move the party room meeting forward had weakened the Prime Minister and could galvanise numbers against him.

"All he has done is signal to people that he is not in control, and some people are irate that Monday has been taken away from them."

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The MP said that Mr Abbott would remain under a significant amount of pressure even if the spill motion was defeated but as many as 20 members of the Liberal party supported it.

A report that a deal could be struck to head off a leadership challenge by installing Mr Turnbull as Treasurer, were being hosed down by the anti-Abbott camp.

"I don't think it's a viable option, I don't think it's something Malcolm would consider, it sounds like a desperate ploy to me," one MP said.

Parliament was due to move a motion of condolence for the victims of the Lindt cafe siege at 11am tomorrow and some MPs are saying moving the party room meeting to before that is not a good look.

"So we're going to be focused on all this leadership stuff instead. That's not a good look," one MP said.

RUDDOCK SPEAKS TO ABBOTT AND TURNBULL

Chief Whip Phillip Ruddock this morning said he believed MPs would have enough time to consider the leadership issues before tomorrow's meeting.

He said he spoke with Malcolm Turnbull this morning as well as the Prime Minister about the meeting being brought forward.

"I spoke to Malcolm as well," Mr Ruddock told Sky News.

"The view in the Prime Minister's mind is it is better to have the issue resolved quickly."

The PM and his accuser ... Tony Abbott talks with Western Australian MP Luke Simpkins, who has proposed the leadership spill motion, during Question Time.Source: News Limited

He said his colleagues were all "mature adults" and had plenty of time to reflect on the vote before it occurred.

"I don't think they need more time to reflect on them," Mr Ruddock said.

One of the first MPs to arrive in Canberra after the announcement, Tasmanian Brett Whiteley, says he won't be supporting a spill motion being proposed by two of his backbench colleagues.

"Politics is not about being popular, it's about getting what's right for our kids and our grandkids," he told reporters on Sunday. Mr Whiteley labelled the spill motion a distraction.

TURNBULL AND BISHOP OUT TOGETHER

Malcolm Turnbull later this morning said the PM had made a "captains call" on changing the date of the scheduled party room meeting and would not confirm if he would put his hand up for the party's leadership.

"It is the Prime Minister's decision to hold the meeting on Tuesday — he's the Prime Minister he's made a captains call and changed the date of the meeting," said Mr Turnbull, who added that he was speaking to his colleagues today.

He was speaking as he arrived at a Liberal Party fundraiser in his Wentworth electorate. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop attended.

Mr Abbott gave a brief statement to media this morning urging his colleagues not to mirror Labor and throw out a first term prime minister.

"On reflection and taking to my colleagues, I've come to the view that the best thing we can do is deal with spill motion as quickly as possible and put it behind us," Mr Abbott said.

"The only question is do we want to reduce ourselves to the level of the Labor Party in dragging down a first time Prime Minister."

The news comes as Mr Turnbull said he would support the Prime Minister in voting against the spill motion for the Liberal leadership, but left open the possibility of taking over should the vote succeed.

Speaking to outside his home this morning, Mr Turnbull said he "supports the PM", but insisted "the party room must be respected".

"I believe one of our strengths as a party is we're a grassroots organisation and we've got to respect our members," Turnbull told Sky News.

"I'm in the cabinet, of course I support the Prime Minister, everyone supports the Prime Minister. You don't have to keep on saying that all the time."

Ironically, the decision to move the leadership spill meeting to Monday comes after Mr Turnbull praised Mr Abbott's decision to give party members time to decide.

"Abbott's also, I think, shown great respect for the party room by saying that the meeting should be on Tuesday, which is the normal party room meeting. Now that's very significant because again you've had people in the press saying it's going to be brought forward to Monday in a rush. The virtue of having it Tuesday, and I know Tony Abbott very well you know he's a good friend of mine. And this is why he has said in Townsville it will be on Tuesday because he knows that members coming to Canberra, who will have been getting lots of phone calls and talking to constituents and many of which will be uncertain, will want to have the opportunity to sit down and talk to each other in the nation's capital, in the course of that Monday leading up to the Tuesday."

Privately Mr Turnbull's backers are reading Mr Abbott's surprise party room meeting as a concession by the Prime Minister that he doesn't have the numbers.

"This shows he's desperate and can't win," one MP said.

Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said it was a sensible decision to move it to Monday morning.

"Malcolm's entitled to his view but I think he is wrong on that," he told Sky News.

"We've got to get on with the job of governing. This has been incredibly distracting. You couldn't imagine the PM going into Question Time with the spill motion hanging over his head."

Mr Turnbull's comments come as reports emerge of a last-minute 'peace deal' plan to install him as Treasurer, with several cabinet ministers urging the Prime Minister to replace him in the role.

Laura Dundovic could learn a few things in the jungle.Source: Supplied

I'M LEARNING so many life lessons from watching I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, and not just lessons about personal hygiene.

In fact nothing whatsoever about personal hygiene.

I mean, I knew television was educational, but I didn't realise just HOW educational. Except for that bit where Laura Dundovic lights a fire with a flint and some sticks and then says "now we're cooking with gas!". Except for that bit.

What have I learned?

That weight loss is as simple as starving yourself and mostly being too weak to move.

Disappearing physical bulk is a constant theme among the campers, as a restricted diet, muscle wastage and no doubt countless flesh-eating river flukes dissolve body weight.

Even Tyson comments that his shorts are about to fall off him. There is a resulting brief surge in ratings in the women-and-gay-men-who-are-alive-and-have-eyes demographic.

Honestly, if it wasn't for people doing jumping jacks, headstands, and Tyson's shirtless sweaty handstand-push-ups, there'd be no activity ... no ... ac ... pectoral ... no activ ... I'm sorry, I lost concentration.

That Lauren has roughly eight thousand pairs of swimming togs.

Seriously. One cossie for every mood and zero actual shirts.

Someone find Lauren a top.Source: Supplied

That holding your hands as if you're deflecting a knife attack isn't the best way to catch stars.

Determined to improve her previous challenge score of No Stars And A Ruined Manicure On One Hand, Laura heads out of camp to participate in something called 'Screech For The Stars'. Five perspex boxes full of unthinkable muck hang menacingly in the trees as Julia and Dr Chris explain the challenge. Laura must stand underneath the boxes, trying to catch stars as they prolapse cockroaches, maggots, algae and offal onto her head and, as we find out, really quite robustly into her bra.

... that's a lot of unthinkables ...Source: Supplied

Take a big breathe ...Source: Supplied

Eek. Watch the bra.Source: Supplied

Laura's tactic is to hold her flat hands above her head, palms out, in exactly the way that someone who wanted to catch a lot of stars wouldn't. Weirdly, she doesn't catch many stars, and by the time the fifth box, full of offal, is ready to discharge its contents, Laura chickens out and heads back to camp. She just doesn't have the guts for guts, but she does make some meals out of meal worms.

WORDPLAY.

That maggots, cockroaches, algae and offal are only as disgusting as their context dictates.

Only two stars means the usual Great Big Bag Of Farts On A Rope becomes the Disappointing Bag Of Offcuts On A Rope as dinner, ostrich neck, is delivered via pulley system.

Chrissie calls it a 'garnish'.

Lauren may not be able to contain her hunger-rage much longer. The ostrich finds their complaints more than a little trivial.

It's hard to believe that just hours ago, Laura had boxes full of more appealing protein literally at her fingertips. What the campers wouldn't do for a big sizzling pan full of bra-offal right now.

THANKS LAURA.

Clearly, she's impressed.Source: Supplied

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Motives ... Nick Gordon was a brother to Bobbi Kristina Brown. He became her husband and now he's under suspicion for her likely death. Picture: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images/AFPSource: AFP

IT'S A plot straight from a soap opera: Raised by singer Whitney Houston like an adoptive son, Nick Gordon was a brother to Bobbi Kristina Brown. He became her self-proclaimed husband. Now, he's under suspicion for her likely death.

Bobbi Kristina was found facedown in a bathtub on January 31 by Gordon and a friend, a frightening echo of the way Houston's body was discovered three years ago.

According to reports, police are investigating suspicious injuries on Bobbi Kristina, who is brain dead but still on life support.

The relationship between Nick and Bobbi had been a sore spot for her father, Bobby Brown, and the Houston family for some time.

Sibling love ... Bobbi Kristina and Nick Gordon started dating when she was just 15-years-old. Picture: Twitter/BobbiKristinaSource: Supplied

Houston opened her home to Gordon when the computer geek was 12 and Bobbi was just 8. Nick was the son of former Houston friend Michelle Gordon, who said she couldn't care for him.

Houston felt sorry for Nick and decided to raise him.

Bobbi and Gordon quickly developed a bond, with Gordon looking after her while Houston and Brown continued their careers. Gordon habitually referred to Bobbi as "Li'l Sis" and she affectionately called him "Big Bruh."

When, at 15, Bobbi began dating, Nick, then 20, became angry, a source close to the family said: "Nick was always telling boys that if they mess with his li'l sis, they had to answer to him."

In 2011, he was arrested after allegedly threatening a teenage boy with a gun when he expressed interest in dating Bobbi.

Gordon filled a void in Bobbie's life after her mother past away. Picture: Twitter/BobbiKristinaSource: Supplied

Gordon filled a void in Bobbi's life. After Houston's death in 2012, they began a romantic relationship. That same year, Gordon was arrested after totalling a Camaro.

Family members contend the unemployed Gordon spent most days smoking marijuana and being "high all of the time." Houston family members are convinced Gordon "had been counting Whitney's money since she died," the source said.

It was Gordon, they said, who turned Bobbi against the family.

"Krissy (Bobbi) and (Marion "Pat" Houston, who is married to Whitney's brother, Gary) were close at one point, and Pat always looked out for Krissy," the insider said.

Not legal ... Bobbi Kristina confided to her father Bobby Brown that she wasn't married to Nick Gordon. Picture: Twitter/BobbiKristinaSource: Supplied

But in April 2014, Pat took out a restraining order against Gordon, whom she claimed had made terrorist threats against her and her husband on social media. Gordon had been demanding more cash from Houston's estate, a police report said.

This was shortly after Gordon and Bobbi announced on social media they were married. Cissy Houston, Whitney's mother, referred to the relationship as incestuous and ties with the family were completely frayed.

Bobby Brown mostly shrugged off the relationship and Bobbi later confided to her father that she wasn't married to Gordon. Brown hoped her infatuation with Gordon would eventually end, the source said.

Whitney Houston welcomed Nick Gordon in to her family as an adoptive son and sibling to her daughter Bobbi Kristina. Picture: AP Photo/Laura Rauch.Source: News Corp Australia

This week, the former New Edition lead singer's lawyer confirmed the marriage never existed, a revelation that leaves Gordon out of any potential inheritance, which a source said could ultimately swell to hundreds of millions of dollars.

Bobbi remains the sole heir to Houston's fortune, currently estimated to be as much as $100 million — and it's not believed that she has a will.